The Guardian
‘It’s an educational revolution’: how AI is transforming university life
Prof Ashok Goel at Georgia Tech university developed Jill Watson, an AI teaching assistant with IBM’s AI “Watson” technology, in 2015.
Apr 17, 2019
EdSurge
Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?
For example, if you look at the Jill Watson experiment at Georgia Tech, where they created a virtual teaching assistant, the students in the class …
Feb 12, 2019
Inside Higher Ed (blog)
The Promise of Personalized Learning, Enabled by AI
Some of these experiments may include interactive books and interactive videos, as well as AI agents like “Jill Watson” for many Georgia Tech …
Feb 6, 2019
Inside Higher Ed (blog)
Affordable and At-Scale
Georgia Tech alone has enrolled 10,000 students over all in its … the virtual teaching assistant “Jill Watson,” and her later iterations as well as …
Oct 31, 2018
The Globe and Mail
Where AI could take the classroom
It has already been a couple of years since Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel introduced “Jill Watson,” a teaching assistant who was actually …
Oct 31, 2018
Inside Higher Ed
Academics push to expand use of AI in higher ed teaching and learning
His most famous AI-powered assistant, Jill Watson, was built on IBM’s … at Georgia Tech and could expand to more colleges and universities, …
Sep 26, 2018
EdTech Magazine: Focus on Higher Education
Artificial Intelligence Is Poised to Expand in Higher Education
An early example of a successful application is Jill Watson, an AI teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. Ashok Goel, a professor of computer …
Aug 16, 2018
Washington Post
The future of college education: Students for life, computer advisers and campuses everywhere
In 2015, Georgia Tech formed a commission on the future of higher … In 2016, a computerized assistant named Jill Watson was used to guide …
Jul 6, 2018
EdSurge
Can a ‘Family of Bots’ Reshape College Teaching?
A Georgia Tech computer scientist has been pursuing that question for several … perhaps the first robot teaching assistant, dubbed Jill Watson.
Apr 13, 2018
Forbes
AI Plus Human Intelligence Is The Future Of Work
At Georgia Institute of Technology, this is business as usual. Last year, Jill Watson, powered by IBM Watson analytics, became the ninth …
Jan 11, 2018
Quartz
Universities may soon replace professors with AI and robots
Jill Watson is the best damn teaching assistant you could ever want. … Goel, a computer-science professor at Georgia Tech—and Jill Watson’s …
Sep 20, 2017
New York Times
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
Last year, my lab at Georgia Tech created Jill Watson, an A.I.-powered virtual teaching assistant designed to help answer students’ questions in …
Sep 14, 2017
NPR
When You’re Not Quite Sure If Your Teacher Is Human
Goel teaches computer science at Georgia Tech, sometimes to large … In 2015 he built Jill Watson, his AI TA — named after one of the IBM …
May 8, 2017
BBC News
Could robots be marking your homework?
This summer, Georgia Tech, a university in Atlanta in the US, deployed a teaching assistant called Jill Watson for one of its postgraduate …
Dec 14, 2016
Chronicle of Higher Education
When the Teaching Assistant Is a Robot
Jill Watson was “”trained”” on a data set of 40,000 questions asked in … at Georgia Tech spent more than 1,500 hours creating and refining Jill …
Oct 23, 2016